Prom

photographs and text by Emily Qualey

A friend who works at a local paper asked if I wanted to come with her to document the arrivals of students at a nearby prom. Of course I said, “YES!”

These two rolled up in an old restored truck. I totally dug that the girl’s dress wasn’t your typical prom dress, and that her hot pink corsage wasn’t obligatory matchy-matchy, but that it actually made the outfit.

After the sequence above, the boy’s father got out of the car and was delightfully weepy nostalgic about, “How fast they grow up.”